It is truly hard to believe that we are on week 5 already! Seems like they have gone from cereal to solid food almost overnight.
The puppies are working on their socialization skills and we have had visitors nearly every day. They had a great time playing with the Miller's in the livingroom on Tuesday night... what an outing that was!
Fina also found it necessary to let all the puppies out while we were gone the other day. I am sure they had a great time exploring the whole house.... wonder where all my websitters were that day?
I have decided on coat length this week and my initial guess was way off. The only smooth coats are Rudy and Spruce, all the rest are plush. So out of the 12 puppies that Fina has produced only 2 have been smooth. She obviously doesn't understand statistics...smile.... especially when you also consider that 6 of the 12 are also white. The best news is that all the hopeful puppy people have found a match!
The pups are eating a combination of moistened and hard kibble now with a bit of cereal and a bit of canned puppy food. The last few days have shown huge weight gains... I had to double check the scale today when I weighed them!
5 Week weights:
Rudy 10 lb 4 oz
Spruce 9 lb 11 oz
Kringle 10 lb 6.2 oz
Candy 8 lb 14.5 oz
Noel 9 lb 10.3 oz
Frosty 9 lb
The last litter ranged from 8 lb 2 oz to 10 lb 2 oz when they were this age so we are looking at the puppies being at least 15-18 lbs when they are ready to go home on the 24th.
Photos were taken this afternoon and should be up soon.
Rhonda & Crew
